{"id":665,"date":"2019-04-06T17:17:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T15:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bergl2019.eu\/?page_id=665"},"modified":"2019-04-25T09:40:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T07:40:15","slug":"sausenstein-pfarrkirche-hl-donatus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bergl2019.eu\/en\/places\/sausenstein-pfarrkirche-hl-donatus\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e4usenstein, parish church of Saint Donatus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The former parish of the Cistercian monastery of S\u00e4usenstein is dedicated to Saint Donatus, the thrower of lightning. Bergl\u2019s frescos extend over three vault fields, they are signed and dated <em>J. Bergl pinxit 1767<\/em>. The paintings show the martyrdom of Saint Donatus, the adoration of the lamb by the 24 eldest and the ascension of the saints into heaven. According to Peter Otto, the trompe l\u2019oeil dome of the choir should not be attributed to Bergl but to another painter mentioned in the source, Krinner. (Peter Otto, Johann Bergl 1718 \u2013 1789, diss. (unpubl.), University of Vienna 1964, p. 82). Bergl reached the height of his creative powers with his work at the church of S\u00e4usenstein. This period was characterised by an \u201cincrease of expression and movement into the expressive-dramatic, uncompromising submission of the individual figures to the overall composition and a markedly expressive figural ideal\u201d (Peter Otto 1964, p. 88). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former parish of the Cistercian monastery of S\u00e4usenstein is dedicated to Saint Donatus, the thrower of lightning. Bergl\u2019s frescos extend over three vault fields, they are signed and dated J. Bergl pinxit 1767. The paintings show the martyrdom of Saint Donatus, the adoration of the lamb by the 24 eldest and the ascension of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bergl2019.eu\/en\/places\/sausenstein-pfarrkirche-hl-donatus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;S\u00e4usenstein, parish church of Saint Donatus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":490,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bergl2019.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bergl2019.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bergl2019.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bergl2019.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bergl2019.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bergl2019.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":926,"href":"https:\/\/www.bergl2019.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/665\/revisions\/926"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bergl2019.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bergl2019.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}